Travelin’ music from the Land Down Under
Last Sunday, we were invited by good friends to a backyard south of Decatur for an informal potluck/concert. We had 50 or 60 people, a deep-fried turkey or two, a good supply of beer and a guitar player from Australia by the name of Geoff Achison, taking a break from his American tour to play a one-man impromptu concert for us.
Sitting in folding chairs in the heat of a Georgia afternoon, sipping cold beer and listening to live music made for a great way to wind down the weekend. The cops even showed up, which made it an official party.
Achison is a great guitarist out of the Duane Allman blues-rock tradition. If you like the cut below, he’s playing tomorrow night at the Sautee Nacoochee Center north of Helen with Randall Bramblett, and at Shorty’s Pizza in Tucker on Sunday. For a guy who talks funny, he sure has this American music down.
– Jay Bookman
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USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:15 am
actually, that didn’t come out right – I’m more of a fan of the hippy-drug-taking-Beatles …
there.
that’s better.
AmVet
June 27th, 2011
9:22 am
Ex-pat, LOL!
Funny you refer to the “IRA” thing.
One time, whilst on the tube, they stopped the damn thing at some platform in between stations and made us all get off. Hung over like a banshee, I thought, oh lovely, this is exactly what I don’t need. Well, as soon as the train was empty, there she goes, off down the tunnel. Some time later, a new train came and picked us refugees all back up.
Apparently someone reported a suspicious package and London was really on edge about Irish bombs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaO4XeHhwo8
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:23 am
AmVet – 9:22 – unclaimed / unpeopled packages still gives people the heebie-jeebies here.
AmVet
June 27th, 2011
9:24 am
OK, off to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender…
Adam
June 27th, 2011
9:25 am
Where’s the fresh sheets??
Mighty Righty
June 27th, 2011
9:28 am
I see some of the left wing loonies have been let out of their bins. It couldn’t be work release programs, must be welefare release. Democrats are still jealous of pretty, intelligent, Republican women. I just don’t understand their preference for the likes of Hillary, Sheila Jackson Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Reno, etc. To each his own.
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:34 am
Mighty Righty- it’s called substance over image.
Mighty Righty
June 27th, 2011
9:36 am
I understand someone woke Obama and he may stop playing golf and campaigning long enough to play the role of president. He is going to talk to some real leaders about the debt ceiling. I think he just found out it could be a problem for which the president is responsible so he should do something.
Brosephus
June 27th, 2011
9:39 am
She’s trying to look like June Cleaver, but she actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo.
That’s a bit of imaginative prose there if I’ve ever read it. If I could write like that, I’d have my own blog.
Doggone/GA
June 27th, 2011
9:39 am
“I think he just found out it could be a problem for which the president is responsible so he should do something.”
Yep. Time for an ADULT to get involved. The BABIES took their ball and went home.
Mighty Righty
June 27th, 2011
9:48 am
USinUK
June 27th, 2011
9:34 am
Next time one of those mental deficients displays your version of “substance” let me know so I will know what it is. I think Shila Jackson Brown is the Congresswoman who wanted a picture of the American Flag we put on “MARS”.
Mighty Righty
June 27th, 2011
9:52 am
Doggone/GA
June 27th, 2011
9:39 am
The Obama “adult” solution to the DEBT crisis. “Increase my allowance Daddy! I want to spend more money!”
Adam
June 27th, 2011
12:22 pm
“I realize you decided to cut my pay, but I would like my pay to start going back up. In return I promise to spend less” – Adult solution